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To create a new Word template there is an assisted setup to guide you through the process. To use this tool, search for and open the Word Templates page.

There are three main stages to the process of creating a Word template; all three parts are covered in this article and the index below will allow you to quickly to a specific section.

• Configure and export the Word template.
• Insert mail merge fields in template using Microsoft Word.
• Import the Word template

Configure and export the Word template

On the Word Templates (9989) page, click the New &raquo Create a template action:

To create a Word Template requires a source table to be available. However, before adding a source table, you need to think about which other related tables you will want to also add to the Word template, as this will decide which table to pick as the source table.

For example, if I wanted to create a letter to customers based on the ship-to address, I cannot use the Customer (18) table as the Ship-to Address (222) table is not a related table. However, if you pick the Ship-to Address table then the Customer table is a related table. This is because tables are available as a related table when their is a field on that table linking it to the other; in the case of the Customer table there is no field for Ship-to Address and so it is not related, but the Ship-to Address table does contain the Customer No. and is therefore a related table.

To add a new source table, click the Add new entity button:

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I’ve been doing some work with a client recently to implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. When entering quotes they want to use the contact functionality to record who they are dealing with on the quote. They also need to create a customer for the contact when raising the quote; there is an action on the Contact Card (5050) card which allows the customer to be created (Actions » Functions » Create as » Customer).

However, when they clicked this action, nothing happened. No customer was created and no error message displayed.

I did some investigating and found that, while we had discussed it in training, they had not yet created any customer templates. While a template is optional when creating the customer directly, if you want to create a customer from a contact then the templates are mandatory.

Once the customer templates had been created, they were able to create customers from the contact without issue.

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The default look of Business Central is a black title bar at the top of the screen, but this can be changed by adding a theme to Microsoft 365, allowing you to include your company branding through the adding a logo and company colours.

If you are already using Microsoft 365 for other applications, such as Office, you may have already configured a theme, in which case Business Central will already be using your theme and you won’t need to do anything.

To set a theme for Business Central, and Microsoft 365 in general, open the Microsoft 365 admin centre, expand the Settings option in the navigation sidebar and select Org settings; select the Organization profile tab and click Custom themes:

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This article is part of the Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central series, but articles within it will also be part of the ongoing and In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

I have previosuly written articles on adding extended texts to items and how they can then be applied to purchase orders and sales orders, but you can actually configure items to automatically add the extended texts.

This is done on the Item card Item Card (30) where the Automatic Ext. Texts option on the [General[/b] fasttab can be toggled on:

With this option on, when the item is added to a sales or purchase document, the extended texts will automatically be added.

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With extended texts added to items they can now be used on sales documents.

On a sales order, select an item which has extended texts and click the Functions » Insert Ext. Texts line action:

The extended text lines will be inserted below the item line with a Type of Comment.

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With extended texts added to items they can now be used on purchase documents.

On a purchase order, select an item which has extended texts and click the Functions » Insert Ext. Texts line action:

The extended text lines will be inserted below the item line with a Type of Comment.

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Extended texts can be added toStockkeepping Units for use on sales and purchase transactions. To add an Extended Text to a Stockkeeping Unit (SKU), open the Stockkeeping Unit card (Stockkeeping Unit Card (5700)Related » Items » Extended Texts[/b] action:

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This article is part of the Using Extended Texts In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central series, but articles within it will also be part of the ongoing and In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Extended texts can be added to items for use on sales and purchase transactions. To add an Extended Text to an item, open the Item (Item Card (30)) card and then click the Related » Item » Extended Texts action:

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